Editing 2870: Love Songs

{{comic
| number    = 2870
| date      = December 20, 2023
| title     = Love Songs
| image     = love_songs_2x.png
| imagesize = 373x341px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.
}}

==Explanation==
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The comic shows an xy-chart of various love songs, graphed according to how the subjects of the song feel. The x-axis represents the narrator/singer's feelings for whomever they are singing to or about, from "No!!" to "Yes!!", while the y-axis represents the other person's feelings for the one singing the song.

{|class = "wikitable"
! Song !! Artist !! About !! Do I like you? !! Do you like me?
|-
| {{w|No Scrubs}} || {{w|TLC}} || || No!! || Yes!!
|-
| {{w|That Don't Impress Me Much}} || {{w|Shania Twain}} ||
|-
| {{w|Cry Me a River}}<!-- needs disambiguating --> || Justin Timberlake or {{w|Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton song)|Knight/Cocker/Wilson/Welch/Bublé}}||
|-
| {{w|We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together}} || {{w|Taylor Swift}} ||
|-
| {{w|You're So Vain}} || {{w|Carly Simon}} ||
|-
| {{w|I Will Survive}} || {{w|Gloria Gaynor}} ||
|-
| {{w|Somebody That I Used to Know}} || {{w|Gotye}} feat. {{w|Kimbra}} <!-- NTBCW "Someone That I Used to Love", Bette Midler --> ||
|-
| {{w|You Oughta Know}} || {{w|Alanis Morissette}} <!-- NTBCW "You Ought to Know...", Phil Collins --> ||
|-
| {{w|Thank U, Next (song)|Thank U, Next}} || {{w|Ariana Grande}} <!-- NTBCW "Thank U", Alanis Morisette -->{{w|Thank U, Next}} ||
|-
| {{w|Teenage Dream (Katy Perry song)|Teenage Dream}} || {{w|Katy Perry}} (or {{w|Teenage Dream (T. Rex song)|T. Rex}} {{w|Teenage Dream|or others}}) ||
|-
| {{w|Shape of You}} || {{w|Ed Sheeran}} (or {{w|Shape of You (Reshaped)|Beverly Knight}}) ||
|-
| {{w|I Will Always Love You}} || {{w|Dolly Parton}}, cover: {{w|Whitney Houston}} ||
|-
| {{w|Call Me Maybe}} || {{w|Carly Rae Jepsen}} ||
|-
| {{w|Killing Me Softly with His Song|Killing Me Softly}} || {{w|Lori Lieberman}}, cover: {{w|Roberta Flack}}, {{w|The Fugees}} ||
|-
| {{w|Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne song)|Girlfriend}} || {{w|Avril Lavigne}} (or {{w|Girlfriend (disambiguation)|many others}}) <!-- NTBCW "Girlfriend In A Coma", The Smiths --> ||
|-
| {{w|You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'}} || {{w|The Righteous Brothers}} ||
|-
| {{w|You Belong with Me}} || Taylor Swift || The narrator has a crush on someone already in a relationship (implied throughout the song to be a toxic one), and lists various reasons why they would make a better partner.
|-
| {{w|Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep}} || {{w|Radiohead}} ||
|-
| Escape (The Piña Colada Song)  (title text) || Rupert Holmes || The narrator is stuck in an unfulfilling relationship and takes out a personal advertisements looking for a new partner. He mentions that he likes Piña Coladas (And gettin' caught in the rain). He finds a date through the ad and the woman is his partner. They recognize that their relationship isn't as bad as they thought resulting in a trenectory from the lower left to the middle or upper right.
|}


==Transcript==
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:[Y-axis label:]
:Do you like me?

:[X-axis label:]
:Do I like you?

:[X- and Y-axis values (from bottom left):]
:''NO!!''; No; Unclear or Neutral; Yes; ''YES!!''

:[Top left quarter:]
:No Scrubs
:That Don't Impress Me Much
:Cry Me a River
:We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

:[Middle left:]
:You're So Vain

:[Bottom left quarter:]
:I Will Survive
:Somebody That I Used to Know
:You Oughta Know

:[Center:]
:Thank U, Next

:[Top right quarter:]
:Teenage Dream
:Shape of You
:I Will Always Love You
:Call Me Maybe

:[Middle right:]
:Killing Me Softly

:[Bottom right quarter:]
:Girlfriend
:You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
:You Belong with Me
:Creep

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Charts]]
[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:Romance]]